Master – We believe you can help.

11 While He was on the way to Jerusalem, He was passing between Samaria and Galilee. 12 As He entered a village, ten leprous men who stood at a distance met Him; 13 and they raised their voices, saying, “Jesus, Master, have mercy on us!” 14 When He saw them, He said to them, “Go and show yourselves to the priests.” And as they were going, they were cleansed. 15 Now one of them, when he saw that he had been healed, turned back, glorifying God with a loud voice, 16 and he fell on his face at His feet, giving thanks to Him. And he was a Samaritan. 17 Then Jesus answered and said, “Were there not ten cleansed? But the nine—where are they? 18 Was no one found who returned to give glory to God, except this foreigner?” 19 And He said to him, “Stand up and go; your faith has made you well.” Luke 17:11-19 NASB translation

Have Mercy on Us

We are miserable – help us out! Do some of that miracle stuff in our direction.

Go and Show

Equally available to all 10 men; no matter what they believed. They all left immediately. But they were not all headed in the same direction…

9 out of 10

One man out of the ten was overwhelmed with gratitude and turned around to thank Jesus. In a loud voice. He wanted to give glory before he received the full benefit. He knew he was being healed real-time but in that day it took a clean bill of health from the Priest for others to accept it. Yet, the one who turned around was a Samaritan.

Glory: The sum of God’s magnificent attributes.

The Foreigner

Jesus uses the hated Samaritan to show both compassion and gratitude as he explains the nature of God and how Heaven works.

10 Things that I am Grateful For

Don’t just say them silently in your mind – write them down. There is a huge difference once you write something down so you can see it. Transformation occurs when we work through the truth of how God is blessing us because the bad stuff is so easy to see.

Oct 13, 2016